If you have a cast member in a animated film who is credited for playing a musical instrument do you still tick the voice check box?

Provided they're credited with the cast, I would say yes - because you are only hearing the sound, rather than seeing them play, as with any cast in an animated feature.

Quoting Danae Cassandra:

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Provided they're credited with the cast, I would say yes - because you are only hearing the sound, rather than seeing them play, as with any cast in an animated feature.

I would go with this.

We can't see the actor (in this case the musician), so it shouldn't get the normal credit. As we don't have another choice to mark an actor as not see-able, I would go with marking as voice only.

Quoting Danae Cassandra:

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Provided they're credited with the cast, I would say yes - because you are only hearing the sound, rather than seeing them play, as with any cast in an animated feature.

I would go with this as well.

Quoting Staid S Barr:

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We don't generally credit music performers (unless they also have an actual role) in live movies, so why do it differently for animated movies?

We do credit music performers in lives movies when they are credited as cast. But then they are usually seen on screen. Therefore I would tick the voice check box for musicians in animation movies, if they are credited as cast, because they are not seen (voice/music role).

Quoting T!M:

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Well, I'm a fairly simple guy: if Mr. Blanchard's voice isn't heard, I won't be checking the "voice" box... 

For me the "voice only" check box is more a "not seen on screen but only heard" check box.

Quoting RHo:

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Quoting T!M:

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Well, I'm a fairly simple guy: if Mr. Blanchard's voice isn't heard, I won't be checking the "voice" box... 

For me the "voice only" check box is more a "not seen on screen but only heard" check box.

So it's like Production Year and Genre, and is a label that actually means something else. We should be getting used to that by now.

It's not so much the definitions that are a problem, but the labels that go with them. Of course the definitions that DVDP applies are correct (by definiition) for its internal use.

The problem with "Production Year" is that we take it to mean the year of the first theatrical release (often one or even more years later), whereas e.g. the copyright notice often has the actual production year.

The problem with "Genre" is that we use it for other types, like Television, Classic etcetera.

Not that I care one way or another, but people that don't visit the forum, can't be blamed for being confused occasionally, by the mere choice of the labels that we apply.